Offsite Electives

Baker House Animal Hospital Provides a veterinary extern a chance to participate in small animal general practice in a suburban practice. Dr. Craig, the owner of the practice, is a 2001 Ohio State Veterinary College graduate. Baker House Animal hospital sees a large number of dogs and cats and a smattering of other. The most common other is currently backyard chickens.

At Baker House, the extern will be able to participate in both surgery and medicine. There is an opportunity  for an extern to actively participate in spays and neuters for a local rescue. Externs will be able to participate in a busy general practice which sees everything from routine wellness to the oddities that first walk in the door. An extern will have the chance to examine the patients, discuss treatment plans with owners, and follow-up on patients. 

We are a small animal hospital with 4 general practice veterinarians, an opthalmologist once weekly, an internist once weekly, an exotics vet, and an acupuncturist.

We also do low income veterinary care for families in need. 

We are here to provide the student with great experience. Our DVM's will allow student to assist in any case work-up, procedure or wellness that they feel comfortable doing. We have skilled veterinary technicians that also are a great resource.  Here at Hunter Animal Hospital we provide a fun, supportive, collaborative experience plus We  love to teach!

We are a well established, independently owned hospital located in southeast Ohio.   We are a general practice that sees dogs, cats, and small mammals (rabbits, rodents, ferrets, guinea pigs) for routine preventative care, urgent care and some emergencies.  We perform surgery 3 days a week and as needed on emergency basis. Wellness care is emphasized and we take the time to try to educate our clients.  The student will spend time with wellness visits, sick visits, urgent visits and some emergencies.  

We see patients 6 days a week. Monday - Friday 8am-5pm and Saturday 9am-1pm.  Surgery is on Monday, Wednesday & Friday.  Typically there are 2 doctors on at most times.

At this location we offer a diverse caseload in the emergent setting including surgical cases, endoscopy, oxygen dependent patients, critical hospitalization cases. 

Pending student's capability and comfort, the extern student can work closely with clinicians to work through cases on individual cases with clinician guidance. Case load has a dynamic range due to the nature of emergency medicine. Pending case load, the extern can scrub into surgeries with surpervising clinician. 

Cedar Hill Animal Clinic is a privately owned, full service small animal veterinary practice serving Westerville and New Albany, OH and surrounding areas since 2018. Our highly skilled and experienced veterinarians and support staff provide care for dogs, cats, small mammals, as well as other exotics including birds, rabbits, reptiles, amphibians, and backyard poultry.

1. Learn how to work up the pruritic dog (and cat, if these cases are available)
2. Learn how to manage an otitis externa case in a dog
3. Learn how to manage a superficial pyoderma vs deep pyoderma
4. Learn how to perform a skin/ear cytology and skin scrape
5. Learn how to stain a skin and ear cytology
6. Learn the difference between cocci, rods and yeast on cytology
7. Learn how an atopic dog is managed
8. Learn how an atopic cat is managed
9. Learn how to conduct a good diet trial to rule out food allergy
10. Learn how to do a skin biopsy (if cases are available)

Student will spend time shadowing with our Dermatologist.  Student will experience client interactions as well as procedures and techniques that we perferm in Dermatology daily.  Our veterinarians will spend time educating student on the many diseases that impact these patients.  Student will be exposed to a wide variety of potential treatments including biopsy procedures, intradermal skin testing, video otoscopy, cryosurgery, laser surgery, and phovia treatments.

Specialties provided:

• Internal medicine
• Cardiology
• Oncology (including Radiation Oncology)
• Emergency Critical Care
• Coming soon (2025): Surgery, Neurology, a 24hr ER

We will also be hosting interns starting (2025).

Students are a able to shadow specialist throughout their day both in and outside of rooms. They have access to our computer system and are encouraged to look at the cases they will be seeing prior to each day so that they can formulate plans with the specialist.  

This elective will give the extern experience in a busy small animal practice. There will be exposure to a broad range of cases including diagnosis and management of challenging internal medicine cases, emergency cases, dermatology, and wellness / preventative medicine.  The extent will have the opportunity to observe soft tissue surgeries, orthopedic surgeries and dental  procedures.  The extern will also have the opportunity to gain experience with rehabilitation and PT.   This practice also incorporates some alternative medicine, to include regenerative therapies (ccrp and stem cell therapy) on select cases.